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01.09.2008 Editorial

Political Imbecility

By Daily Guide
Political Imbecility
01.09.2008 LISTEN

Last weekend provided adequate political fodder for the media to savour a treat which could extend beyond the better part of this week especially as the development is beginning to exhibit signs of a showdown between forces of evil and decency.

As in all such encounters, the forces of evil emerge as the vanquished with tails tucked between their legs, crestfallen and humiliated.

The agenda which engaged editors during the week under review has been about an action, part of a grand plan taken by a trio of Convention People's Party (CPP) personalities towards a colleague, Hon Freddie Blay.

Such side attractions in the countdown to the December polls expose the real stuff certain personalities are really made of besides what they present on the political campaign trails.

Superficial looks do not tell the qualities of such persons even as they wear protruding moustaches or wheel themselves around with sugar-coated words of promises emanating from their mouths.

With time however the veneers covering them give way and these characters, with records of going on their knees to seek political favours from Mr. President, stand naked with feeble hands covering their nakedness.

Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom is one person whose credibility as a serious person has been put on the line these past few days as he prosecutes his political war against a man he has vowed to deal with.

At the time that he took up an appointment with the ruling NPP government as a minister, Dr. Nduom did not find anything wrong with a CPP man dining with the government of the day.

Today he thinks that the party which harboured him for years on end must be subjected to his ingratitude and anybody who subscribes to political realism with wise counsel must be shot down and ridiculed.

A story elsewhere in this edition speaks volumes about whether Nduom should be trusted as a gentleman or treated with contempt.

We think that the man should be treated like scum because he does not deserve respect considering his unbecoming conduct.

After acknowledging the importance of seeking a formal deal with the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) towards the December polls because his political grouping cannot win the elections, he turns round to ask for the neck of a colleague whose crime is that a newspaper had carried out a calumnious campaign against him.

When a newspaper, part of the anti-Blay war resorted to publishing out of context political utterances of the Hon. Blay, Dr. Nduom found the operation fitting into his game-plan without even probing it.

This is the calibre of the personality who wants to be entrusted with the destiny of this country.

The text message promising to deal with the First Deputy Speaker from Nduom, though denied, still stands as an unshakeable evidence of the man's insincerity and cowardice.

We find it outlandish that a party which claims to be adhering to the rules of democracy and civility can engage in a witch-hunt of this scale and yet turn round to solicit the support of the Ghanaian electorate at the polls.

As if that was not enough, a so-called campaign manager of the moustached and disappointed Nduom utters garbage to the Ghanaian listener and viewer.

Whatever that guy meant by referring to Hon Blay's supposed utterance about the CPP as 'embarrassing' is beyond our ken.

Someone said he could be justifying the pay Nduom is doling out to him and we agree but ask whether such support for his boss must be done in such an imbecile fashion.

For a party whose leaders are refusing to acknowledge the political realities on the ground, last weekend's action which entailed the so-called nullification of the First Deputy Speaker's election as the CPP's candidate for the constituency can be anything but wise.

Hon. Freddie Blay has been in the firing line of the trio for a while now, who out of frustration for their political lot are lunging for the honourable gentleman's neck, though to no avail.

As for the General Secretary of the party all we can say is that his action by issuing the now infamous release nullifying the results which returned Hon. Blay as the most favoured by the Electoral College, is the most untoward from a scribe and can only add to the unfortunate woes of the CPP. We would have rather it were not so.

We can only conjecture the repercussions of the intended action by the Ellembele constituency executives who have vowed to fight the forces of evil.

This way political imbecility would give way to sensibility and progress of the CPP which is recuperating from many years of morass.

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